Goals for these graphs

  • comparing the coverage of Congo to earlier publications (specifically earlier Arab Scribe, Cultural Yearbook, and Egyptian Economic and Political Review)
  • comparing the coverage of Congo to the rest of the magazine in Arab Review and Arab Observer
  • Ultimately argue that the increase in coverage was notable but also that Congo had a particular discourse in these publications

Datasets: National Publications House

  • Arab Observer 1960-1963
  • The Scribe 1961-1964
  • Arab Review 1960-1963

Egyptian Periodicals

  • Egyptian Economic and Political Review 1954-1962

AAPSO Periodicals

  • Afro-Asian Bulletin 1961-1967 (English edition)
  • Afro-Asian Bulletin 1961-1967 (Arabic edition)

African American Periodicals

  • Liberator 1961-1971
  • Freedomways 1961-1985
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# 1. Arab Observer 1960-1963
ArabObserver_df = pd.read_csv('../data/arab_observer_corpus_cleaned.csv')

ArabObserver_df.datetime = pd.to_datetime(ArabObserver_df['date'], format='%Y-%B-%d', errors='coerce')
ArabObserver_1960_61 = ArabObserver_df[ArabObserver_df.datetime < '1962-01-01']
alt.Chart(ArabObserver_1960_61).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('date:T'),
    y=alt.Y('sum(cleaned_spacy_counts)')
)
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# 1. Arab Review 1960-1963
arab_review_df = pd.read_csv('../data/Arab_Review_1960_1963_volumes_processed.csv')
arab_review_1960_61 = arab_review_df.query('dates.str.contains("1960")')
# arab_review_df['page_date'] = arab_review_df.dates.astype(str)+'_'+arab_review_df.page.astype(str)
alt.Chart(arab_review_1960_61).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('page:O'),
    y=alt.Y('sum(cleaned_spacy_counts)'),
).properties(
    width=500
)
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#distribution of Congo in multiple publications until September 1960
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#TFIDF + NMF of how Congo was being covered across publications
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